Events

Join medical practitioners Dr. Marji Gold '69, Professor of Family and Social Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and founder of RHEDI (Reproductive Health Education In Family Medicine); Dr. DeShawn Taylor, MSc, FACOG, clinical professor, women's health and reproductive rights advocate, and owner of Desert Star Family Planning in Phoenix; and Dr. Bhavik Kumar, MPH, Medical Director for Primary and Trans Care at Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast in Houston, for a conversation on the many health ramifications the Dobbs decision has on pregnant people. This panel will explore the ramifications on carrying a pregnancy to term, miscarriage, and ectopic pregnancies with a focus on existing and worsening race, gender, and class disparities. We will also hear about the erosion of medical training and patient/provider decision-making due to the Dobbs decision. A zoom link to participate will be shared with registrants within 24 hours of the event. 

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This year’s Breakthrough Screening Series will feature a screening of SLC guest faculty member Beth Levison’s documentary film Storm Lake. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Beth Levison and the film's Impact Producer Alice Quinlan SLC ’11 with a reception afterward.

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A reading with Carmen Maria Machado, followed by brief audience Q&A 

To launch the History Matters event series this semester, historian Brett Gary will introduce his book, Dirty Works: Obscenity on Trial in America’s First Sexual Revolution, an award-winning study of key legal battles over literary and sexual censorship from the late 19th through the mid-20th century. 

The last 40 years has been a revolutionary time for atomic, molecular, and optical physics.  During that time there have been a number of major breakthroughs and experiments that have developed an increasing level of control over atoms and molecules, leading to fantastic scientific tools such as extremely sensitive clocks, Bose-Einstein Condensation, and quantum computing that allow us to study the fundamentals of quantum mechanics.  In this talk, Matthew Wright will introduce many of these concepts and discuss his teams' own research projects.  Professor Wright and his team are working toward using frequency-chirped laser light on the nanosecond time scale to control atomic excitation and collisions in complex systems with cold atoms.  Toward this end, they have developed a novel laser system that generates rapid arbitrarily frequency chirped lasers. 

Matthew Wright is the chair of the physics department at Adelphi University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut and obtained his undergraduate physics degree from Westminster College (PA).  Before becoming a professor, Wright held physics research appointments at Harvard University and Innsbruck University.  He was also a management consultant at Princeton Consultants for 3 years focusing on logistics.  In addition to research interests in atomic physics, he continues to focus on building a student-first community which has lead to mentoring 40 students in physics research and 15 op-eds on building community in higher education.